Last year, LEGO started a new line of accessories called LEGO Xtra. The collection includes sturdy cardboard playmats, stickers, and small accessory packs with interesting LEGO elements. We have reviewed many of the LEGO Xtra products previously (see links at the end of this post), so today we will only recap what’s available in the small accessory pack lineup, and also talk about the new Christmas-themed accessory pack that was released recently.
Five LEGO Xtra accessory packs were released in 2018. The #40309 LEGO-Xtra Food Accessories includes apples, carrots, bananas, croissants, fish, cookies, ice cream, chocolate bars, and even a full turkey. The #40310 LEGO Xtra Botanical Accessories features trees, bushes, plant leaves, flower stems, flowers, a couple of fence pieces, and some frogs. The #40311 LEGO Xtra Traffic Lights pack includes four traffic lights, garbage can, a red wheelbarrow, and some small accessories. The #40312 LEGO Xtra Streetlamps pack includes a couple of the rarer black street lamps, a bench, newspaper stand, smaller lamps, mailbox, and a few other items. The #40313 LEGO Xtra Bicycles pack features a couple of red bikes, a skateboard, helmets, a printed pizza box, bags, an umbrella, and more. All of these packs are super useful for expanding LEGO City dioramas and they only costs $3.99 each. They are available at the LEGO Xtra section of the Online LEGO Shop.
For 2019, we only got two new packs. The #40341 LEGO Xtra Sea Accessories was released for the summer with a shark, fish, shell, surfboard, diving and fishing gear, and some treasure. The newest pack is the #40368 LEGO Xtra Christmas Accessories with a brick-built snowman with a top hat, candy cane, and gift boxes, a husky, a small Christmas tree, a minifig beanie, a white tree branch, a trans-blue ice crystal, snowshoes, a couple of decorative fences, and several other useful items. These are also $3.99 each and can be purchased at the LEGO Xtra section of the Online LEGO Shop.
LEGO Classic is a great way to amass a large number of basic bricks, wheels, windows, doors, and other basic elements in a rainbow of colors. LEGO Xtra is similar, but with accessories. So far, all the accessory packs come with pieces that are most useful for modern city builders, although some of the packs like the food and botanical accessories could be used in other settings and time periods as well. I do hope that LEGO will consider releasing accessory packs for other themes, and that they release new packs more frequently. Five packs in 2018 was nice, but only two in 2019 is a bit disappointing. The good thing though is that all seven packs are still available, and the limit on them is 50 per household, so you can get plenty for your customizing needs.
What do you think? Do you have any of the LEGO Xtra packs? Which do you find the most useful? And what other accessory packs would you like to see in the future? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!
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It’s a good idea, but there might be too strong a focus on City themes. (Possibly because many of the other themes currently are based on licenses.)
From the late 70’s to the early 2000’s, Lego offered Service Packs on various themes such as Space and Pirate accessories and windscreens. I might be interested in things like that. Windscreens and decorated monitor parts, and hair and headgear collections.
See listings here.
https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Service-Packs
https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Bulk-Bricks
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?pg=1&catString=63&sortBy=Y&sortAsc=A&itemBrand=0&catType=S
I agree with this. We need cheap accessory packs in other themes. We have some accessory sets with minifigs (like for City Space), but they are expensive. And not everyone has a Lego store with a pick a brick wall nearby.
I agree with others. We need more of these types of sets. I know we can get individual pieces on Bricklink and Bricks and Pieces, but I like the convenience of just picking up a small pack with interesting bits.
Maybe even have a small animal pack . Lego should also bring back the hair pieces and hat pieces pack. As well as armor, helmets ,and weapons pack for a castle theme. In fact , maybe a create your own theme pack. Isn’t that what Lego is all about? To be creative. Of course that’s more like the pick a brick wall and the create your own minifigure stations. There’s always room to expand though.🤔
I would love an animal pack!
They are okay, but we need more. We need a box of gray parts, for example. For spaceships and for greebling. And a box of landscaping pieces (leaves, flowers, stems, etc). Then one with car parts like wheels, windows, etc. The problem with Lego Classic is that all the sets are too bright. Most AFOLs don’t build with a rainbow of colors like that. They are good for kids, and they should be continued, but we also need boxes for AFOLs for customizing.